The following is an interview by Elena Kostyuchenko of the independent news site Novaya Gazeta with a Russian tank gunner, who was ordered to fight for Debaltsevo along with his battalion. The article in the original Russian has already received more than 1.8 million views. Dorzhi Batomunkuev, 20, 5th Separate Tank Brigade (Ulan-Ude) army unit […]
Staunton, August 31 – Vladimir Putin’s effort to block Ukraine’s integration with Europe by trying to spark a civil war in the former Soviet republic has failed, Leonidis Donskis says; and consequently, Kyiv despite its current difficulties can look forward to becoming a full member of the European Union sometime within the next ten years. […]
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Staunton, July 26 – Ilya Frank, a Jewish linguist whose approach has defined how Russians study foreign languages for more than a decade, has decided he and his family must leave Moscow for Israel because of what he describes as “a Nazi-like atmosphere” there, one he quickly identified because of his familiarity with German writings […]
Staunton, July 13 – Remzi Ilyasov, deputy head of the Moscow-imposed State Council of Crimea, says that a World Congress of Crimean Tatars scheduled to be held in Ankara July 31 through August 2 are “a very dangerous measure” that will only be the occasion for making “some sort of declarations” against Crimea as part […]
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Pavel Kanygin, a war correspondent for Novaya Gazeta, was arrested by Russian-backed separatist forces on June 16, beaten and interrogated, and then deported the next day back to Russia. It was the second such detention he had suffered at the hands of militants from the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” in a year. He was accused […]
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French President François Hollande has met Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and has said that the delivery of Mistral Warships which Russia has purchased, for the moment at least, “in the context we all know, isn’t possible.”
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